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POWER/COAL/MINES/RE

In November 2015, when the government announced the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) programme to turn around electricity distribution companies (discoms), there was little hope that it would alleviate the debt and operational burdens of the state electricity boards (SEBs).

The summer of 2017 may not prove as uncomfortable for electricity consumers across India as the season in previous years, thanks to surplus power generation capacity, adequate coal stocks and improved purchasing ability of distribution companies.

The Indian power sector is set to witness a sea change with new tariff regulations, which will consider for the first time energy efficiency, peaking power rates and time-of-the-day tariff as key themes.

Global renewable energy generation capacity increased by 161 gigawatts (GW) in 2016, making the strongest year ever for new capacity additions, according to data released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) was not a vote for protectionism but rather for trading more widely with countries such as India, said its minister for business, energy and industrial strategy Greg Clark .

As World War II saw a rapid increase in the volume of road traffic in India, the government of the Raj convened a conference of engineers in Nagpur in 1943 to discuss the condition of roads, and the way forward.

In the first half a century after Independence, India invested around 3.0% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in infrastructure, which resulted in the tattered state of the sector till quite late in the 1990s.